🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

विस्तारपरक

Pronunciation / Transliteration: vistārparak

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Extensional/ˌɛkˈstɛn.ʃəl.əl/
adjectiveCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #28400 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"यह तर्क एक विस्तारपरक दृष्टिकोण का अनुसरण करता है।"

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Concerned with or consisting of the actual members or instances of a set, class, or concept, rather than its defining properties or attributes.

    "The database was organized using an extensional approach by listing every individual record."
  2. 2

    In logic and semantics, relating to the extension of a term, meaning the set of things to which the term applies.

    "An extensional definition specifies the meaning of a term by pointing to all the objects that fall under it."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Medieval Latin 'extensionalis', stemming from the Latin 'extensus' (past participle of 'extendere', meaning 'to stretch out'). The term evolved through philosophical and logical discourse in the 19th and 20th centuries to describe properties determined by the extension or members of a set, rather than its intension.

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